Peabody College : from a frontier academy to the frontiers of teaching and learning /

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Tells the story of Peabody College's many lives, of its successes and failures, and of its many colorful leaders and professors.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Conkin, Paul Keith
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2002.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Vanderbilt University. > George Peabody College for Teachers.
Vanderbilt University. > George Peabody College for Teachers
EDUCATION > Higher.
EDUCATION > History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Davidson Academy and Cumberland College
  • The educational mission of Philip Lindsley
  • Princeton West
  • Crisis years for the University of Nashville, 1850-1875
  • The State Normal College of Tennessee, 1875-1887
  • Peabody Normal College, 1888-1911
  • The long and painful birth of George Peabody College for Teachers, 1897-1910
  • Creating the George Peabody campus, 1911-1930
  • The academic side, 1914-1930
  • Depression and war, 1930-1945
  • The Peabody of Henry H. Hill
  • A troubled decade, 1961-1972
  • Merger
  • Peabody as a Vanderbilt college.

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